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Here is an example that imports a module from a ZIP archive - note that
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$ unzip -l /tmp/example.zip
Archive:  /tmp/example.zip
  Length     Date   Time    Name
 --------    ----   ----    ----
     8467  11-26-02 22:30   jwzthreading.py
 --------                   -------
     8467                   1 file
$ ./python
Python 2.3 (#1, Aug 1 2003, 19:54:32) 
&gt;&gt;&gt; import sys
&gt;&gt;&gt; sys.path.insert(0, '/tmp/example.zip')  # Add .zip file to front of path
&gt;&gt;&gt; import jwzthreading
&gt;&gt;&gt; jwzthreading.__file__
'/tmp/example.zip/jwzthreading.py'
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